Synopsis
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
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Cast
- Show AikawaRyô
- Riki TakeuchiOfficer Takeshi Honda
- Maria ChenMichelle
- Richard ChenDictator Woo
- Jason Chu Wing-TongPrisoner
- Josie HoJun
- Rachel Ngan Wing-SzePregnant Woman
- Terence YinFong
- Hiro Hayama
- Don TheerathadaDon
Recommendations
- 60
TV Guide Magazine
Compulsively watchable. - 50
New York Post
The movies of prolific and popular Japanese director Takashi Miike evoke many emotions -- nausea, excitement, awe, amazement, shock. One emotion they don't often evoke is boredom. Sad to say,Dead or Alive: Final is boring. - 50
New York Daily News
Takashi Miike is a master at making love-'em-or-loathe-'em spectacles, but even fans are likely to consider the final film of his Dead or Alive trilogy a minor entry in his oeuvre. - 40
Variety
It's a silly but enjoyable farrago from the cult quickie-meister, again set in an amoral universe-on-a-budget. - 30
Village Voice
Scene-by-scene, things happen, but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why; occasionally, a poetic moment leaps out of the soup. - 30
The New York Times
The home-movie crudeness of Dead or Alive: Final indicates it was made on the cheap with minimal preparation. - 30
The A.V. Club
In Dead Or Alive: Final, Miike trades his grimly comic, sex-and-blood insignia for a self-consciously wacky conflation of Hong Kong action cinema and Japanese anime, with a little cheap science fiction tossed in for good measure.
